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(ot″ō-pri-sip′ĭt-ĭn) [auto- + precipitin] Precipitin active against the serum of the animal in which it was formed.
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(o′top″sē) [Gr. autopsia, seeing with one’s own eyes] A postmortem examination to determine the cause of death and the diseases present at the time of death. SYN: necropsy; necroscopy.
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molecular a. Laboratory evaluation of a patient’s genetic predisposition to disease after he or she dies. It may be used when anatomical autopsy findings are inconclusive.
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psychological a. An attempt to determine what, if any, emotional or psychological factors caused or contributed to an individual’s suicide.
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social a. An investigation of the stresses present in a community that may have contributed to a cluster of unexpected deaths.
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verbal a. An attempt to determine the cause of death by interviewing those who were familiar with the illness affecting the deceased.
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virtual a. A determination of the factors that contributed to or caused the death of a person, employing imaging devices, e.g., CT scans, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultrasonography instead of surgical dissection of the corpse.
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(ot″ō-rē-ak′tiv) [auto-reactive] Exhibiting an immune response against the body’s own antigens.
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(ot″ō-rē″ak-tiv′ĭt-ē) [auto- + reactivity] Autoimmunity.
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(ot″ō-ri-sep′tŏr) [auto- + receptor] A cellular receptor that influences how the cell manufactures and releases the same neurotransmitter that stimulated the receptor.
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(ot″ō-reg″yŭ-lā′shŏn) [auto-regulation] Control of an event such as blood flow through a tissue (such as muscle) by alteration of the tissue. If blood flow is insufficient, precapillary sphincters dilate; when blood flow increases, precapillary sphincters constrict. autoregulate (ot″ō-reg′yŭ-lāte″), v.
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(ot″ō-rē″in-fū′zhŏn) [″auto- + reinfusion] Intravenous injection of a patient’s blood that has been collected from a site in which bleeding had occurred, such as the abdominal or pleural cavity. SEE: autologous blood transfusion.
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(ot″ō-rĕ-sŭs″ĭ-tā′shŏn) [auto- + resuscitation] Spontaneous resumption of normal breathing and circulation after apparent death. autoresuscitate (ot″ō-rĕ-sŭs′ĭ-tāt″), v.
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(ot″ō-sen″sĭt-ĭ-zā′shŏn) [auto- + sensitization] Sensitivity to one’s own cells, fluids, or tissues. SEE: autoimmune disease.
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(ot″ō-sep″tĭ-sē′mē-ă) [auto- + septicemia] Septicemia from resident bacterial flora or their toxins.
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(ot′ŏ-sīt″) [auto- + Gr. sitos, food] The relatively normal member of asymmetrically conjoined twins, the other twin being dependent on the autosite for its nutrition.
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